Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-01-21

The bill introduced IN the 1ennessee
legislature making the PRONUNCIATION OF
polygamous doctrines felony is strong
measure, but the Mormon monster will
never be overthrown by any milder agen'
cies.
The New York organ tCr the knights oil
Labor, The Leader, is just now the victim
of strike and boycott. growing out oil
the raising of the price of the paper from
80 to 50 cents hundred, and the discharge
of the delivery clerk because another
could be got to do his work at 81 week
less salary. The managers of the paper
say that the changes we're absolutely nee
essary to keep the paper going. as their
receipts were getting less than the ekpen-
ditures. but the newsboys, who are the ag-
grieved ones, will accept no such expia-
nation, and are pelting with mud and
stones the other boys whom the managers
have got to take the places Of the strikers.
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value nearly one fifth OF its entire proper
ty, and it directly employs one-tenth OF
those engaged in gainful occupations. Its
earnings, in part because they are more
closely watched, but still more from their
intrinsic importance, constitute the most
accurate record of the current condition
of trade The gross earning, for 1886 on
ninetv-three roads covering 62,6lS miles,
or one-half the railroad system OF the
country, reported by the Financial Chron-
icle, aggregate 1914, 1852 $50, an advance
of $50 064. 5l2 on the earnings of the same
roads in 1886. At this rate, the total gross
earnings of American railroads were S70,-
0O0. 900 larger in 1886 than in 1885. This
is an advance of about 10 per cent. the
gross earnings of 1885 being 1872 SOS. 1913
The boom of Governor Hill for the
democratic presidential nomination in 1888
received a marked impe US at the meeting
of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Asso-
citation in indianapolis last Friday. The
address of the occasion was delivered by
Scott Ray. editor of the Shelbyville,
Ind. Democrat, on the topic How best
to succeed in 1888" 1t was devoted to
the denunciation of the mugwumps and
to a laudation OF David B. Hill. If the
applause which greeted it is a fair criterion,
the contempt for Mr.. Cleveland among
the Indiana democrats is only equalled
by the esteem in which New York's Gov
ernor is held But it must be disappoint-
ing to the President. SAYS the Philadelphia
Press, to know that in the State where by
his appointments he has done the most TO
inIure his reputation as civil service re-
former the democrats are the first to
openly announce their opposition to his
denomination next year.
The development of the natural re-
sources OF Siberia is subject just now
occupying much of the attention of the
Gar. 1t has been presented to him in a
forcible manner by Count Ignatieff and
Baron Korff, the Governors. General respec-
lively of Eastern Siberia and the Amour,
and they represent that it is only the in
cessant flooding of that country with
eNiled criminals that keeps Siberia in the
state of wilderness. The native popula-
ton is corrupted and in many ways I'M ured
by this influx. and the numerous out
breaks and attempts to escape made by
ferment. Protests against this penal col
onizatiOn have hitherto been unavailing
and year by year the number of convicts
sent thither has increased. In the century
preceding 1864 about one million persons
were exled TO Siberia. From 1864 to the
present time fully seven hundred thousand
more have been sent, and the rate at pres
ent is about fifty thousand year. The
hope that these exiles would in time be-
come settled colonists has not been realized.
Ninety-nne per cent of them seem to have
but one desire, to escape from Siberia :;
and fully one-fourth of the entire number
are always in flight. This enormous num-
Der of roaming fugitives, most OF them,
of course, utterly lawless. keeps the
country in a state OF terror and confusion
that paralyzes all social and industrial
progress